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  • Books & Book Chapters
  • Research Reports

    Trading on a grant: Integrating formal and informal social protection in post-apartheid migrant networks

    Brooks World Poverty Institute Working Paper, No. 75

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  • Organizing Briefs

    Organizing on the Streets: A Study of Reclaimers in the Streets of Cape Town

     This brief is part of the WIEGO Publication Series. View list of all WIEGO briefs.

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  • Research Reports

    Organising in the Taxi Industry: The South African Experience

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  • Research Reports

    The Urban Informal Workforce: Street Vendors

    These findings are based on research conducted in 2012 as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS), a project under Inclusive...

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    Changing Social Policy: The Child Support Grant in South Africa

    Description from HSRC Press: An important historical record of one part of post-apartheid South Africa’s policymaking, Changing Social...

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  • Journal Articles

    Technology, informal workers and cities: insights from Ahmedabad (India), Durban (South Africa) and Lima (Peru)

    This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO.

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  • Research Reports

    Promoting the Interests of Women in the Informal Economy: An Analysis of Street Trader Organizations in South Africa

    Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS) Research Report, No. 19

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  • Research Reports

    Understanding self-employment at the margins of the South African economy: Findings from a pilot study on qualitative approaches to self-employment

    Report for the National Income Dynamics Study Steering Committee, Draft

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